omg, ECO24 got a starred Publisher's Weekly review! "23 stellar tales" 🌿✨🥲✨🌿 High-five to all the authors who make this collection so wonderful! And an extra high-five to @jenniferhudak.bsky.social and @louisevans.bsky.social, whose stories are highlighted in this review as standouts 👀🫶

Are you going to @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social? Me, too! Join me at More than the Sum of its Parts: Building Novels from Smaller Parts with @nassos.bsky.social, @vajra.me, and @yarntheory.bsky.social in hour 28. Then @phoebebarton.bsky.social and I talk After Capitalism, Then What? in hour 51.

Absolutely love* how anxiety seems to be a non-negotiable part of my routine nowadays. Going grocery shopping? Not without some mild panic! Want to relax? Did you complete your daily quota of fretting first! Having lunch? Yeah, no, it's tummy trouble time! *hate. Why are bodies and minds like this?

I get the awesome job of moderating not one but TWO panels on short fiction during this year’s @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social! #Flights2025

AV tested for Flights of Foundry, and everything is good to go! Here's my schedule: Friday, Sep 26th, 2:00 PM EDT: Panel (member) - The Added Depth of Speculative World Building Sat, Sep 27th, 7:00 AM EDT: My reading slot! Sat, Sep 27ths, 9:00 AM EDT: Panel (moderating) - Altering Adaptations

We are mere days away from @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social!!! I’ll be kicking off the weekend with a panel on Speculative Worldbuilding during Hour 2 / 11 AM PDT. Are you registered yet? FoF is free, virtual, global, and AWESOME! You don’t want to miss it. #Flights2025

YEEEESSSSS!!!!!

I've thoughts on the things we're not supposed to talk about along with the stories we tell. How we must push back on the justifications people use to ignore or embrace the wrongs around them. I also wonder why we let Alexanders and incendiaries hurt so many people. www.patreon.com/posts/139194...

Calling all Flights of Foundry Flock! We're looking for volunteers! It takes a lot run a convention. Want to see behind the curtain, meet cool people, and be a part of what makes FoF great? We have several different roles and we'll teach you what to do. flights-of-foundry.o...

Agreed and proud to be a member of the WGA.

My Flights of Foundry schedule for next weekend! historythatneverwas.com/2025/09/15/m...

I have acquired my flu and covid vaccines!💪💉

This month! The 30th! Alex Easton returns in WHAT STALKS THE DEEP! I know I just had another book out! It’s a lot for me, too! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

I’m so excited for Flights of Foundry! (Even if I cannot believe that it is somehow already mid-September??) Here’s my panel schedule! If you aren’t registered yet, you can still sign up for this fantastic free virtual con here: flights-of-foundry.org Hope to see you there!

Oof! This one hits close to home! Great bit of micro fiction. Check it out:

🚨 FoF Reminder for Registrants: The lottery is open until Sept 15. Results will be emailed Sept 17, even if you didn’t win any seats. After the lottery closes, everyone can directly sign up for remaining seats. Haven't registered yet? Now's the time! flights-of-foundry.o...

Strange Horticulture is 60% off on Steam right now! 🌱 With just 5 days to go before Strange Antiquities, this weekend is the perfect time to step into Undermere and learn what it takes to manage an occult shop. store.steampowered.com/app/1574580/...

Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction

Tis the season! @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social is coming soon! It's free! It's global! It's virtual! It's AWESOME! I'll be there all weekend as a fan and part of some of the events. Come join me for #Flights2025!

We are absolutely elated to announce we’ll be publishing THE FINAL CHRONICLE OF YENEH by @jomiles.bsky.social next year! It grabbed our editors and wouldn’t let go. It’s a sci-fi yarn that will have you feeling all your feelings. Do follow Jo!

Friends! If you missed the Kickstarter that launched the Dark Hearts anthology, have no fear! The collection, which includes my story "A Psalm of Blood and Water", is getting a new, "no-frills" release with a brand new cover in gorgeous purple. 💜 www.jessicacarver.com/dark-hearts

Unveiling the cover for THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS! Garrodigh is a curmudgeonly three-headed dragon who pretends to be tame so he can eat for free at the local dragon-riding academy. Unfortunately, the rider he's assigned to is... a lot. Coming Summer 2026 from DAW (US) and Arcadia (UK)!

The more these tech bro weirdos try to jam AI into things, the more old fashioned I get. The only thing they're managing to convince me of is that I need *less* technology in my life.

In October, we always publish horror-focused articles at the magazine. We love retrospectives, anything in our focus on underrepresented voices, and just anything weird and spooky. Pitch us: www.interstellarflig...

Oh holy sweet Juno, this is amazing (On the left, click More and then Manage subscriptions.)

Small Wonders will be open to original flash fiction submissions this Friday, September 12th. We'll be open through October 31st! We'll also be closing to reprint flash fiction on Friday, September 12th. Send us your weird, wild, wonderful little stories with big emotions!

My Genre Grapevine analysis of the Anthropic AI settlement with authors. Overall, most authors got screwed with the settlement payments barely covering 7% of the books Anthropic pirated to train their generative AI system. 1/ www.patreon.com/posts/138349...

I'm gonna be on these two panels. Clearly, you need to come watch Catherine and I make excited sounds about stories!

Whoo!!! Check out this awesome line up! I'll be moderating two panels, speaking on one, and giving a reading! Come join me!

🧵I’m putting the MRM contract ordeal behind me to focus on making more art, but I just had 1 more thing to say related to this. Throughout the past several months many writers have reached out to say things like, “I wanted to push back, but I’m a nobody” or “my piece was just a little poem.” 1/5

Want.

Chocolate chip zucchini mini loaf because it's Thursday and not Friday but it really should be Friday.

One of the problems of short fiction is *finding* it. There's so much out there, it's hard to know how to find what you'll like. Enter InkFoundry. There are so many ways to search! Search by venue (Small Wonders, for example), by author, by tags... or have the site surprise you ! inkfoundry.net

Short fiction markets getting sketchy, or closing, or only opening for an hour under winter’s first full moon. Payment processors going full Puritan. POD sites somehow getting worse than they’ve ever been. Pretty soon I’ll have to sell my writing cash-only from the trunk of my car.

Translunar Travelers Lounge is looking for First Readers for the upcoming submission period. If you'd like to find out more about how the magazine is put together, or just want to help out, let us know! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This is a very important read for those in the world of short fiction, whether or not you have worked with MRM magazines. @cornellwriter.bsky.social has been a pillar of integrity throughout this whole nightmarish process, advocating not just for herself but for all writers.

Ritz cracker + peanut butter + chocolate chips = discount butterfinger. You're welcome.

And just when you thought our great news was over 👀👀👀... We're holding an OPEN READING PERIOD for novella and novel submissions November 3RD-14TH! Bring us your best strange fantasy, beautiful horror, and surreal scifi! 🖤👽 Full details in the link below! ⬇️ www.apexbookcompany.com/pages/submis...

Reason No. 8956359495 why Trollbreath is great: even if you can't afford to subscribe, they offer you the amazing stories for free each Friday. If you can't see the space dragons right now, they'll be there for you on October 24th.

Yes! Everyone must read this fabulous story!

The Apex Magazine team is thrilled to announce that our Kickstarter for 2026 begins OCTOBER 1ST!! 🎃🍁 We're keeping all the rewards you love, adding exciting new rewards for readers and writers alike, AND reopening submissions! Mark your calendars, and we'll see you at the graveyard smash! 👻🌙🐈‍⬛📅

FoF Update: Everyone registered will be emailed a link to request lottery sessions starting today. The lottery is open until Sept 15. Results will be emailed Sept 17, even if you didn’t win any seats. After the lottery closes, everyone can directly sign up for remaining seats.

Black knit (because that's what I want to knit next), hot chocolate, pumpkin bread, pumpkin patch.

For the night crowd: @trollbreathmag.bsky.social's fall issue is out now and it contains the reprint of my scifi story "Draconis astronomus." If you missed out on the intrepid Dr. Geraldine Whitaker and her quest for space dragons last year, here's your chance to get in on the adventure: 🚀🐉💪

Many authors have searched The Atlantic's LibGen database of pirated titles to see if they are listed there. However, I've uncovered that authors of short fiction aren't always discoverable there. Here's how I discovered more of my short fiction in the list. 1/ www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Check out that line up! Absolutely thrilled to be included with these spectacular stories and so happy to see "Draconis astronomus" find new readers.

It's finally September! Do you know what that means??? Flights of Foundry is THIS MONTH. Register: flights-of-foundry.o... Let's gooooo! 🪽🪽🪽

Whoo hoo!!! Come say hello to the space dragons!!!

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